determiner

Ridley said the Official Golf World Rankings are "a legitimate determiner of who the best players in the game are" and because the Masters is an invitational event they can "adjust as necessary".

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024

"Nobody should be the sole determiner of their own biases, but they maintain that," Lubet added.

From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2023

If you think what's the number one determiner of your income level – it's your parents' income level, right?

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

To this day, class remains the largest determiner of participation, above race or age.

From New York Times ● Oct. 29, 2021

Toni Morrison’s isn’t functioning as a modifier, which shades the meaning of genius, but as a determiner, which pins down its referent, in the same way that an article like the or this would do.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"Supermarket buyers are some of the most powerful determiners of national diet."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2016

Their impact is less significant in many developed countries, but they are important determiners of mortality in developing countries.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

A Generalized Presence-Absence Formula for Man.—In man as in lower forms some characters or traits are due presumably to the presence of determiners or to their absence.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer